Hello, World! Again.

Yep, that’s right. You heard correctly. This isn’t the first time when I present my blog. But today it is going to be special.

It will be special just because:

It’s open source — so now you can improve it and help me to fix mistakes.

It’s static — so this is convenient for me, superfast and hosted on GitHub Pages.

It’s habitual — because it has been built using familiar tools, like Gulp, Jade, Markdown and Travis.

Looking behind

My first blog had been built on WordPress. It was convenient, but WordPress was too bulky for me. I needed just blog. Without widgets, without plugins, without themes. I needed just some pages, with minimalistic, but readable design. Then I’ve lost my domain and forgot about these problems.

I’ve already mentioned that about five months ago and decided to create perfect, slap-up site using modern technologies. But I didn’t have time to do this and left this idea again

Through thorns to here

At first, I was trying to write my own MVB theme for Hexo, but it’s not for me. I wanna more freedom and Hexo restricts me, so I’ve made new branch and been trying to rewrite blog using Metalsmith. It proved to be better, more flexible but still not what was necessary.

I thought, if I needed this flexibility, why if I’d write everything on Gulp?

So now my blog is written using Gulp, Jade, Stylus (with BEM) and Markdown. And that’s enough for me — this is just working.

Language

Few words about language.

I’ve written the blog in Ukrainian before, however now I have more followers who don’t know Ukrainian. So I write in English.

Of course, my English is not perfect, so if you find a mistake, please, click «edit on github», fix mistake and send me a pull request. I will be grateful!